--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Can anyone enlighten me as to what exactly would a person get from > SS, if lets say, they paid into it for 20 years? How much does the > average Joe get at the end of all that, and what else do they get?
Depends on how much they paid in, and that's all they get from the gummint, except for Medicare. Also survivors' benefits for spouse and kids when they croak. You can do some rough calculations here with a hypothetical income: http://www.ssa.gov/planners/calculators.htm It ain't much, not enough to live on except in *really* straitened circumstances, even if you've been working for 50 years at an average-Joe salary. You need some other source of income--pension, investments, savings--to be comfortable.
